2007-2008: Environmental Planner, Planning Department, City of St. Paul, MN.

2006: Wildlife Biologist Intern, Arizona Strip BLM Field Office.

2002-2006: BA in Biology and Environmental Studies, St. Olaf College.

Research Interests:

My career goal is to support the preservation of carnivores and my research interests are tethered to that goal. My current interests are fourfold: modeling species distributions and their applicability in endangered species management, exploring connectivity modeling processes and their relationship to reality, spatial modeling of human-carnivore conflicts and the ability to identify conflict hotspots, and lastly, understanding perceptions of human-wildlife conflict and how they influence carnivore conservation. These represent the primary topics in my dissertation work.

Supervisors:

Dr. Sarah Durant, ZSL and WCS.Dr. Mat Disney, UCL.

Co-Supervisors:

Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli, ZSL.Dr. Philip Lewis, UCL.

Presentations:

The Size of Savannah Africa: A Lion’s View. Presented at the Re-Mapping Africa in GIS: From Humanities to Health, Harvard University, 2012.

Utilizing Google Earth to document land cover changes to unprecedented levels: A case-study in West and Central Africa. Presented at the International Congress for Conservation Biology, Auckland, New Zealand, 2011.